Arizona State Museum Director Interviewed on Arizona Public Media

Director of the Arizona State Museum Interviewed on Arizona Public Media
Since 2013, Lyons has focused his expertise with Arizona archeology as the director of the Arizona State Museum. That appointment followed Lyons’ seven years as a member of Arizona State Museum’s faculty, and a long history with studying and curating the museum’s artifacts when he was an employee of Archaeology Southwest. http://bit.ly/1r8mfmQ – Arizona Public Media

Congratulations to Saul Hedquist – Recently Awarded NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
Saul Hedquist (Ph.D. Candidate, Archaeology) and E. Charles Adams (Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum) have been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for $19,684 by the National Science Foundation. The award supports Saul’s research investigating pre-Hispanic uses of turquoise in the Western Pueblo region of the U.S. Southwest. The project’s abstract is provided here: http://bit.ly/1nsYbIz– University of Arizona School of Anthropology

Historic Site Located During Construction in Florence, AZ
A construction site for a park in Florence has turned into an archeological site after a mysterious discovery was made by work crews. They were in the process of digging up the area, but instead they unearthed a treasure that may be more than a century old. The discovery halted construction on a park being built in Florence. Crews were working behind the Silver King Hotel built in 1895. When they came across broken glass and discovered a path of beer and whiskey bottles buried about a foot below ground. The bottles may date as far as the 1870’s. http://bit.ly/1qVO6VK – Fox Phoenix.Com

Flagstaff Considers Options for Buffer Zone Adjacent to Walnut Canyon National Monument
The Flagstaff City Council is set Tuesday to take up conservation options for the 27,000 acres of Forest Service land surrounding Walnut Canyon National Monument. A National Park Service study has said the lands do not merit protection from development as a formal expansion of the 3,600-acre national monument — there are not enough features of national significance. http://bit.ly/1mYQI56 -Arizona Daily Sun

Politics Derail Plans for Rim Rock Canyons National Park
Plans to convert the spectacular Colorado National Monument in western Colorado into a national park are dead, at least for the time being. The congressional backers of the plan—GOP Congressman Scott Tipton and Democratic Senator Mark Udall—said that support and opposition for the new “Rim Rock Canyons National Park” appears to be evenly divided, and both had received a petition drafted by the conservative “Friends of Colorado National Monument” with over 2,500 signatures opposed to the change. http://bit.ly/1zyPa5S – Gawker

Two Lecture Opportunities – Tumacácori AZ
On Tuesday July 15, at one pm, archaeologists Claudia Jaramillo and Jupiter Martinez will present their recent archaeological works in Sonora, Mexico in Archaeology of Cueva de Ochoa Cliff Dwelling and Padre Kino’s Burial Place, Sonora, Mexico. They are visiting TUMA as part of their study of the conservation and management of archaeological sites in the American Southwest. The presentations will be informal and the audience is welcome to bring in their lunch. Since seating can be limited in the Boundey House, please RSVP with NPS park ranger Melanie Rawlins at 520-377-5064.